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Best of the Super Jr. Update: Night 6

Desperado and Phantasmo remain atop the table after three matches wrestled

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Night six of Best of the Super Jr. 29 saw action in Akita, as B Block action saw Wheeler Yuta face El Desperado in the main event. As both men fought for control of the wrist early, Yuta broke the stalemate with a hard slam and senton before finding a snug hammerlock, but it was Desperado with more sustained offense, driving Yuta’s knee across the apron and then wrapping it around the ringpost. 

Yuta found an inverted Atomic Drop and enzuigiri to create distance, and a dropkick was followed by a tope suicida. Yuta would keep scoring on the break, but Despe would stop the AEW representative with a corner Dragon Screw, before driving his foe to the ropes with a Stretch Muffler. Unable to escape Desperado, Yuta would instead reverse the former champion, transitioning out into a Fujiwara armbar and then Cattle Mutilation. 

With his own arm hurting, and mind likely flashing back to his title loss in Fukuoka due to arm and shoulder damage, Desperado wanted to end the match quickly. A spinebuster and then Guitarra Del Angel got two, but Yuta would come back to his feet and traded with the Suzuki-Gun member; the Painthriller suplex would land for Wheeler, but with a hurt knee, he couldn’t get enough of a cover for three. Yuta hammered in elbows to the shoulder and neck and went for the Seatbelt, but was countered into a Pinche Loco; after a thrilling series of counters, a second Pinche Loco would connect for the win.  

El Phantasmo was seeking to stay perfect atop B Block when he faced the winless Titan in the semi main. Wrestling with appropriate and ever present confidence, he controlled Titan on the mat, and frustrated the tecnico until a springboard cross body and rope spring head scissors, but a dive over the top would be met with a Sudden Death and DDT out on the floor. 

ELP rooted Titan to center ring with a delayed vertical suplex, before stomping at his foes hand and fingers and raking his back in the most obnoxious fashion imaginable. The high risk nature of his antics wasn’t worth the payout, as Titan caught Phantasmo on the top rope and crotched him, and despite ELP’s power, a super Frankensteiner would land flush. 

The masked man followed up with his step up tornado DDT and a picture perfect quebrada, but Phantasmo would respond with an impactful sit out powerbomb at the ten minute mark. Frustrated at Titan’s kick out, ELP loosened his opponent’s mask, but it didn’t stop an overhead kick that stunned the BULLET CLUB member, and a Death Valley Bomb for a two. The La Lansa double stomp followed, but only got two, as did ELP’s UFO in response; Phantasmo wanted Sudden Death, but was rocked by Titan’s own thrust kick and a shoulder breaker for another near fall. Titan went for the kill, but ELP ‘accidentally’ tore off his opponent’s mask; as Titan put the hood back on, Phantasmo primed for Sudden Death and then the CR II to move to six.

BUSHI would jump Master Wato to start their meeting fast, landing a DDT on the outside and continuing to work over the tag champion’s neck. Wato was able to respond with a tilt a whirl back breaker, and took to the air with a tornillo, before a springboard European uppercut kept the young prodigy in with a chance at his first two points. A wild roundhouse kick missed for Wato though, and BUSHI was waiting in response with his own knockout shot of a dropkick before a rope assisted apron DDT.

Wato would fire back with a high angle German suplex for two, but though he would try and counter BUSHI’s Codebreaker, he only succeeded in elevating the move and taking more damage. The MX followed with authority, and BUSHI moved to four points. 

El Lindaman and TJP were both working to get to four points themselves when they faced off, TJP dictating the pace early with headscissor take downs before snapping Lindaman’s arm with a shoulder breaker. The Public Enemy retained full and merciless control of Lindaman, until the GLEAT champion was able to catch a springboard into a Northern Lights, and then followed with a high risk, high reward tope con giro. Lindaman didn’t have enough on his hurt arm to land a German, and paid with a TJP springboard DDT and Final Cut for two, but gutted out the pain for a wild corner dropkick and a brainbuster to gain space. TJP came close with the Pinoy Stretch and an armbar, but Lindaman was able to escape and hit the Dead End German. 

Starting the night’s tournament action were DOUKI and Robbie Eagles, both looking to get to four points. Both men knowing one another’s offense well, neither gained an upper hand until DOUKI sidestepped an Eagles plancha, leading to a tope suicida into a remarkable DDT on the floor. DOUKI stayed one step ahead until Eagles was finally able to clip the knee of his opponent, and punished DOUKI’s base, but a 450 fell right into the Italian Stretch #32. Daybreak followed, but when DOUKI went for a double stomp, he missed and jammed the hurt knee; DOUKI was on the back foot for the rest of the match, and despite threatening on the break, was shut away with the Ron Miller Special. 

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